Testimony: Telles Family

Written by NHC Staff

Friday, 30 October 2009 04:15

Aloha, My husband and I attended workshops at Nãnãkuli Housing Corporation back in November and December of 2007. We were given a ko'oko'o. I am happy to say that we still have our ko'oko'o and it will be put up in our home shortly. We started our action plan in January 2008. It was challenging and still to this day it is challenging, but we have successfully purchased a home in Waianae. Along with our family, we did renovations during the month of June and officially moved in on July 1, 2009.

I wanted to take this time to thank NHC. Attending those homeownership financial literacy workshops was a blessing for my husband and I. It helped us to see things in a different perspective. The knowledge that was given to us helped us to make better choices and positively changed our mindset. I hope that NHC will continue to help other native Hawaiian families to become homeowners. I know that my family and I still have a lot to learn and a long road ahead of us. The workshop taught me that home ownership is a journey. Thank you for giving us hope and the tools for that journey.

Please share the picture of our family working on our home taken in July so that families will know that all of NHC’s hard work has a positive effect on the people whose lives they touch with their knowledge, time and caring hearts.

Aloha,
Delacruz-Telles ‘Ohana

Telles ‘Ohana renovating their new home.

Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2009 04:18

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John Kaneakua

They had experienced teachers in various trades from workplace safety to electrical wiring and everything in between, preparing us for the steps involved in constructing a new home. NHC staff and trainers where always pleasant and helpful with any questions we had.

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Waimanalo Quarry Facility

The wonderful people not only helped to train the people in our community, but they also helped us to repair and replace our doors and screens at our Waimanalo Quarry Facility with donated materials from NHC’s Baseyard Hawaii.

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Rozena and Abraham Nuuanu

Aloha, I just wanted to thank Nãnãkuli Housing Corporation, its’ workers and volunteers for the great program you offered to the families on Hawaiian Home Lands. If we hadn’t heard about your great program, I would have not known how we would afford to make room in our house for my new granddaughter. Because of the home repair and maintenance classes and the timely delivery of materials supplied by NHC, we were able to build an extension to my daughter’s bedroom.
We have so many in one house getting enough hot water was a big problem. We had a 40-gallon tank and our electric bill was in the $700.00 range. Thank God for a special grant that NHC received for solar systems, which my family and others in the same situation had installed. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. Learn more...

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Telles Family

I hope that NHC will continue to help other native Hawaiian families to become homeowners. I know that my family and I still have a lot to learn and a long road ahead of us. The workshop taught me that home ownership is a journey. Thank you for giving us hope and the tools for that journey. Read more...